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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2021-01-17 06:05 am

Ongoing: All Teams

The first few days are taken up with solving the problems in the various sectors, all the while getting closer to their goal. The Great-Winter, Great-Summer, Great-Spring and Great Autumn.

On Day 9 of the month of Jelly they will see on their map a clear indicator of where to go. As they draw near it will be obvious what they are looking for.

The Overseers

In the centre of each of the sectors there is a large metal tube, hundreds of pipes lead from it, spanning up to the ceiling above and down below, creating a field of pipes and tubes to clamber over and crawl under to reach the central tube. On the tube itself there is a panel, wrapping around it in a circle. The SCA's of the Voidtrecker show an exclamation mark, if they click on them they will see the message.

Reach the panel, enter the inner systems and give your aid.

As Voidtreckers step towards the tubes it will seem as if the world shifts around them. Instead of metal and wire they will see trees. The Great-Spring is a tree in blossom, pink leaves spreading up across the canopy. Great-Summer has strong green leaves, Great_Autumns leaves are brown and falling and Great-Winter has no leaves at all.

The panel is still there, the only part of the scene that doesn't look organic. As the Voidtreckers move towards their goal the tree begins to move, branches fighting against those trying to get through the roots. The aim seems to be to push intruders away, going as far as flinging them back with higher branches.

The branches aren't the only security measures in place. As they push forwards they will find creatures coming at them from the trees.

Strangely the creatures look like creatures from their own worlds, any creature they would expect to see in a tree. Regardless of species they attack with claws and with lazers from their eyes. They don't move far from the branches, but try and stop invaders from getting close to the trunk.

For those that get through they will find that as they draw close to the 'trunk' the attacks stop, as if they have reached an eye of a storm.

Going Further

The panel is a simple glowing screen, there are no instructions but their SCA's will beep softly and if they press their SCA to the panel they will find everything vanishes, the trees, branches and weird animals.

Or perhaps it is they themselves that vanish as they find themselves in a large white room, everyone is together here. No matter what sector they had travelled through and which overseer they entered through.

There are four tubes filled with liquid, pink, green, orange and white towering over them.

"Our systems have been compromised." The four voices ring out. "Heal what has been harmed, destroy what should not be here. Find the source and purge it from our world."

The overseers and the room vanish and the voidtreckers find themselves in a forest, a forest that is slowly being choaked by red sickly vines.

The Voidtreckers themselves will find themselves looking different, almost like the hard-light holograms of the Helpmates though they certainly feel like themselves. They are carrying a sturdy stick but nothing else and depending how imaginative they are will quickly find they can alter their appearance to fit their wishes.

Heal and Destroy

The voidtreckers will find themselves drawn towards the vines, if they touch them they will be able to soothe, a glowing blue light from their hands that runs down the vine before it fades away, freeing the trees that it held in its chokehold.

There are many pathways, many vines and it will be a long task to clear it all. It is not long also before the first threats find them. Threats that look like mongeese, small creatures that will lunge at them, teeth bared and claws out.

Luckily the Voidtreckers will quickly learn the ability to soothe is not the only power gifted to them.

On the Outside

For anyone who does not enter through the panel it will seem like their fellow Voidtreckers have entered a deep trance. The area they are sat around the tree is calm, no threats enter there. But outside that area there are still threats, the branches attack, the animals attack and sometimes Helpmates try to evict those they see from the area, claiming it 'restricted.'
soldier_blade: (30-break free)

[personal profile] soldier_blade 2021-01-25 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
This was no different than any other firefight she's been in (which was funny in a 'not funny' way that actual fire was involved), and dealing with trigger happy (or ice happy) team mates was something she was used to as well. Not that either were especially fun, but it was familiar and almost routine with her.

Between his acting as shield and her own hyper awareness, she was able to dive between various attacks, gripping each vine she was able to get her hands on. The effort in of itself wasn't difficult, but if she wasn't quick, the mongeese were quick to try and aim for her hands
xue_yang: (Angry)

[personal profile] xue_yang 2021-01-25 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Xue Yang growls at the pesky creatures as they just seem to be coming from everywhere. He alternates between shooting ice and using his sword to attack depending on how far away the enemies are at the time. "Why are there so many of these damn things?"

They are more persistent then resentful corpses when they have their eyes set on a target. He wonders if he kills enough of these creatures if he would be able to control them enough to turn on the rest of them.
soldier_blade: (30-break free)

[personal profile] soldier_blade 2021-01-27 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"How else are they meant to guard against something!" Sonya didn't bother facing him, shouting instead to be heard over everything.

The longer they spent here, the more she was convinced that everything was related; what was meant to be helpful had gone haywire, and if the creatures were meant to prevent invaders, they too had turned 'over eager'. So of course the Void, would get a distress signal.

Better to risk the lives of a para-military force than the planet's own workers.

Sonya gripped hold of an attacking branch, using it's momentum to swing herself forward, gripping and healing several vines in the process. She stuck her legs forward, kicking herself off another tree to prevent herself from crashing.
xue_yang: (Angry)

[personal profile] xue_yang 2021-01-28 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Xue Yang continues to fight through the creatures, "I don't understand what they are guarding. The tree? The vines? They clearly aren't guarding the world very well or else the people would have called us in to get rid of the problem."

And he definitely sees these animals as a big problem. But he doesn't quite understand the technology to know what might be making everything go crazy.